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Team:Dundee/Attributions
From 2012.igem.org
Thanks to the Division of Molecular Microbiology in the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, for giving us laboratory and office space, and the use of equipment, to carry out this project. We gratefully acknowledge The Wellcome Trust Rotation Studentship Program at Dundee for providing key molecular biology equipment. We thank all our sponsors for the consumables and some other equipment used in this work (listed below). Student stipends over the summer were awarded by The Wellcome Trust (seven studentships). Travel funds were provided by the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA), the University of Dundee, the James Hutton Institute and the Nine Trades of Dundee. T-shirt design was the work of Frank Sargent. Other individuals worthy of special mention are:
Dr James Cargill: For sharing his knowledge of Clostridium difficile.
Miss Katie Ravenscraig Morrison: Who created the graphic version of our team mascot.
Mr Jaeger Hamilton: For taking part in the video for our song.
Mr Andrew Herd: For helping with the design of the wiki.
Mrs Geraldine Sandilands: For keeping us right with all of the travel arrangements for Edinburgh, London and Amsterdam.
Dr Jackie Heilbronn: For general assistance with ordering and lab safety.
Dr Lisa Grayson: Who assisted us when answering the safety questions and helped us to formulate our risk assessments.
Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall: For advice, and for providing us with materials that we were able to use on our outreach day at The Shore.
Mr Nicholas Dawes: For advice and help with wiki, Matlab and Comsol.
Dr Sarah Coulthurst and her group: For advice and and discussions on bacterial Type VI Secretion Systems.
Professor Eric Cascades: For allowing us to reproduce his diagram of the Type VI Secretion System.
Professor Angus Lamond: For his artistic input.
Professor Neil Fairweather: For providing us with a synthetic gene for the phage endolysin.
Mr Ross Middlemiss: For setting up the iGEM recording suite and mastering our song.
None of the advisors or instructors are involved in C. difficile research nor study the Type VI Secretion Systems of Salmonella nor are experts in modelling bacterial population dynamics or gut bulk flow - the project areas were chosen entirely by the team. All cloning and sequencing was carried out by Rachael, Avril and Nicola. Western blotting and radiolabelling work was done by Kimberly. Tracy Palmer, Grant Buchanan, Frank Sargent and Ciaran Kelly were the supervisors of this part of the project. Website design was started by Chris and finished off by Avril and Andrew H. The Android apps, games and other software were written by Chris. Mathematical modelling was figured out by Johnny, Jill and Chris under the supervision of Dyce, Lionel and Andrew S. All juggling was performed by Avril and Duncan.
Nobel Prize winning poet and honorary graduate Seamus Heaney has described the University of Dundee as "having its head in the clouds and its feet firmly on the ground." The ability to be both aspirational and down-to earth, to blend ground-breaking intellectual achievement with practical applications, has given the University its distinctive character.
The James Hutton Institute is a brand new international research centre based in Scotland. The work we do is right at the top of the global agenda and involves tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems including the impact of climate change and threats to food and water security.
This iGEM team has been funded by the MSD Scottish Life Sciences Fund. The opinions expressed by this iGEM team are those of the team members and do not necessarily represent those of Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited, nor its Affiliates. The vision of MSD is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products. We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health.
Established in 2007, Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) is a research pooling partnership between the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Strathclyde that is supported by the Scottish Funding Council.
We are a global life sciences company. We believe in the power of science and appreciate its rigorous discipline. That’s what drives our passion for innovation, leading to transformative offerings that support endeavors throughout the world. Our extensive range of products and services, from instruments to everyday lab essentials, ensures quality and performance for every lab, every application. Customers in more than 160 countries count on us in their quest to improve life in meaningful ways.
The Nine Trades of Dundee is a local organisation that continues a tradition of supporting, documenting and representing local trade groups in the Dundee area. Their archives are a growing repository of documents and imagery that covers both the history and traditions associated with the Trades in Dundee.
We are a core DNA sequencing and fragment analysis facility based within the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences and serving laboratories within the University of Dundee and elsewhere within the UK.
